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## Asteroids

Asteroids is one of my favorite video games. The day care I grew up in (!) had
an original tabletop Asteroids game for the munchkins to play with, so I spent
hours on that thing instead of playing sportsball or getting vitamin D. It's
[Asteroids](https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/asteroids) is one of my favorite video games. Many years ago, the daycare I grew up in (!) had
an original tabletop Asteroids game for us munchkins to play with. I spent
hours on that thing instead of playing sportsball or getting vitamin D. Asteroids is
super cool in both its simplicity, and its use of vector graphics—as in, the
original CRT didn't just do the horizontal scan thing; the tube traced out the
vector pattern on the screen, resulting in things like small shapes showing up
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[Doug McInnes's JS asteroids clone](https://github.com/dmcinnes/HTML5-Asteroids)
to reset my brain, for years since he first published it back in 2010.

<p style="text-align: center;">

![An original Asteroids "Cocktail"-style tabletop game](/img/asteroids-cocktail.jpg)

[source](https://arcadespecialties.com/arcade-games-for-sale/vintage-arcade-games/asteroids-cocktail/)

</p>

## TypeScriptification

I wanted to play with ML reinforcement learning (more on that later), which
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